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📍 Montreal, Quebec
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The End of Cycling in Montreal? My Honest Evaluation
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The End of Cycling in Montreal? My Honest Evaluation
YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity!
https://youtu.be/zcHEulB-uwE
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It's Jamie
about 22 hours ago
The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.
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Projet Montréal
about 15 hours ago
Montréal demeure une référence nord-américaine en matière de vélo. Mais entre projets suspendus, budget réduit et pression pour redonner de la place à l’auto, plusieurs signaux inquiètent. 👉 On vous résume la vidéo de Oh The Urbanity! dans notre article :
projetmontreal.org/nouvelles/mo...
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Dedicated detour signs for cyclists on the REV Saint-Denis. In anticipation of the road being pedestrianized for a week (Montreal Comic Arts Festival).
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Big box parking lots are not my favourite places in the world, but this one at least has a bike share station and EV charging.
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Canada’s emergency alert system treats “there was a child abduction (and/or custody dispute) 500 km away, here’s the license plate” with the same severity as “take immediate shelter, there’s a tsunami coming and Donald Trump is trying to nuke it”.
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about 14 hours ago
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Cellphone data shows a decline of 42% in Canadians visiting the United States, higher than the 25% drop found in border crossing estimates. Myrtle Beach, South Carolina has the biggest decrease (65%). We visited there in 2019.
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“The market cannot provide affordable housing.” And yet, have you noticed that some housing markets are much more affordable than others?
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“Cities aren’t loud. Cities, when their hockey team is in the playoffs, are loud.”
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New cargo bike rental service in Boulder, Colorado!
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One thing I find really interesting is that conservative governments in Canada (like in Ontario and Alberta) are less polarized against transit than US Republicans — but *more* polarized (or at least more aggressive) against bike lanes.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
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one day, this constant, endless, exhausting, humiliating horseshit is just going to stop and it will never start again.
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Anh Khoi Do
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Le Québec : « Okay, au-delà de trois étages, ça prend deux cages d'escaliers. » La Suisse : « Chérie, j'ai bâti un immeuble de vingt-cinq étages avec une cage d'escaliers en Suisse ! »
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The difference is that the Canada Post mandate explicitly says that it’s supposed to be financially self-sustaining. Maybe that’s unrealistic these days and should be changed? But for the moment it’s not like any other service.
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“Typical recent parks offer little seating, little shade, few trees and no reason to linger. There is never a café, too rarely a washroom, rarely a water feature. Playgrounds, sculpture and chin-up bars are thrown together seemingly at random.”
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The End of Cycling in Montreal? My Honest Evaluation
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The End of Cycling in Montreal? My Honest Evaluation
YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity!
https://youtu.be/zcHEulB-uwE
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Jean-François Rheault
3 days ago
L’aventure multimodale près de chez soi!
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Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸
3 days ago
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
What an insane thing to say at this point. What the fuck is going on?
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Carney says Canada open to deeper integration with U.S. ahead of CUSMA review
Speaking to a room of progressive policy experts in Toronto Saturday, Prime Minister Mark Carney offered some insight into what Canada has offered up ahead of an official review of the Canada-U.S.-Mex...
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/canada-open-to-deeper-integration-with-us-in-some-sectors-carney-says/
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TransitCenter
3 days ago
The essay’s argument actually aligns with our research into how to get people to take action for public transit. “Transit fights climate change” isn’t a motivating frame; “ensuring everyone can get around with dignity” is. We still push transit as a climate solution, just with different messaging.
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Yet Another Urbanist
3 days ago
Yesterday, I uploaded a video on why protecting trees requires building dense cities:
youtu.be/zneKVi6Rn44
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Protecting Trees Means Densifying Cities
YouTube video by Yet Another Urbanist
https://youtu.be/zneKVi6Rn44
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Alex Diaz-Papkovich
3 days ago
This CBC essay about a family moving from Toronto to Saskatchewan is framed as escaping “busy city life” but most of it is about how cars and gridlock made their lives unbearable
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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People who don’t bike anywhere often have virtually zero knowledge of how to do it. What routes exist, which ones are safe, how they connect or go places. Same thing behind the “we have enough bike lanes!” crowd.
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Just listened to a podcast where someone randomly commented that if you want to easily kill yourself, you can “just go to Canada”. It’s wild how medically-assisted dying is so prominent in people’s views of Canada.
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Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸
4 days ago
It’s very good to finally see a major eastern publication highlight the fact that that this movement exists primarily because it’s core members fried their brains on the internet and are now compelled to suicide bomb their own country.
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The American convention of referring to politicians with their past titles always sounds funny to be. “President Obama”? He’s no longer president! (Carney’s following it here but it’s not the norm in Canadian politics. People would not typically say “Prime Minister Harper” post-2015.)
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Nobody loves their city like people from Chicago. And I can’t blame them! I think Chicago is my favourite city in the US that I’ve visited. (Granted, I’ve never been to New York.)
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I use a Mac now for video editing. But I used to love using and tinkering around with Linux. I used it on and off since 2004 or so. I think the world would be better off with more free & open source software.
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Robert Zaichkowski
4 days ago
Thanks
@spacing.bsky.social
for publishing my article about the need to make completing the 72 km Loop Trail - and other trail gaps across the city - an issue for this October's municipal election.
#BikeTO
#TOpoli
#VisionZero
spacing.ca/toronto/2026...
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A Different Kind of Cycling Campaign - Spacing Toronto
During Toronto’s last three elections, cycling campaigns focused primarily on on-street infrastructure including protected bike lanes and Vision Zero road safety improvements. Think of Cycle Toronto’s...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2026/05/08/a-different-kind-of-cycling-campaign/
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Rodney 🚧🚇
4 days ago
Cities in Ontario: literally don’t have power to do anything Cities in California: I’m gonna build a neighborhood right on top of a state project corridor
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Vancouver’s West End is one of the nicest neighbourhoods in the country. I’d love for everyone who thinks tall buildings ruin neighbourhoods to visit there. Tall buildings sound scary when they’re proposed. But when they already exist, they usually just feel like a normal part of the housing mix.
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“Montreal’s long-promised plan to turn downtown’s McGill College Ave. into a large pedestrian square has been postponed for at least two years as the new administration reassesses the project.”
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Plan to turn McGill College into pedestrian square and honour Oscar Peterson postponed
The future of a linear park in the heart of downtown is uncertain under the city's new administration.
https://montrealgazette.com/news/plan-to-turn-mcgill-college-into-pedestrian-square-and-honour-oscar-peterson-postponed/
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Genuinely conflicted on municipal amalgamation. Political fragmentation seems to encourage NIMBYism and dysfunctional politics in a lot of ways. But local control has also helped cycling and pedestrian infrastructure gaining a foothold in lots of cities.
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I hate this so much. Alberta is working on provincial legislation to ban and/or remove bike lanes. Like Doug Ford in Ontario.
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Bell: Alberta to bring in law with power to rip out bike lanes and stop new ones
The Alberta government is bringing out a new law where existing bike lanes could be removed and new bike lanes would not get the green light
https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/columnists/bell-alberta-to-bring-in-law-with-power-to-rip-out-bike-lanes-and-stop-new-ones/wcm/bfa2f849-1745-4965-9774-7856c58c2d1e
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Calgary Transit considering different pricing structures, including distance-based fares and different peak vs. off-peak fares.
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Surge pricing or higher costs for longer rides? Calgary Transit considering fare structure changes | CBC News
Calgary Transit is considering Uber-like surge pricing that could see riders pay higher fares at certain times of the day, as well as pay more to travel farther across the city. The agency will consul...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-transit-fare-structure-considerations-9.7191352
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Will Stancil
4 days ago
There’s a bizarre social consensus, somehow strongest among the elites and institutional leaders of the nation, that all this deranged behavior simply amounts to nothing - bluster and chaos sitting atop a fundamental normalcy.
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BARO
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I love how the short census is just -What is your name -How many people in your household -Are you sure that's how many? -Diplomats hiding in your home? -Speak french as a 1st language? -Speak french fluently? -Speak some french? -Learning french? -Planning to learn french? -Spoke but forgot french?
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I know this describes a lot of people on here.
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Local nerd disappointed he didn’t get the long form census
TATAMAGOUCHE, NS - An event five years in anticipation turned to bitter disappointment this week, as a local census dweeb did not receive the coveted long form questionnaire.
https://thebeaverton.com/2026/05/local-nerd-disappointed-he-didnt-get-the-long-form-census/
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JJ McCullough criticizing official bilingualism, focusing on the need to be bilingual to lead a political party in Canada. But that’s not a law! Parties are free to run with unilingual leaders. You just might find that people you can’t communicate with effectively… won’t vote for you.
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Is Canada’s democracy weakened by official bilingualism?
YouTube video by CHEK Media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsIsdDdcxHY
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I think this was based on percent foreign-born, where Toronto is 47% versus New York at 31% and Los Angeles at 35% (metro areas). At least, that’s the most common way I see this measured in Canada. Versus the focus on white vs. non-white in the US.
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Brandon Donnelly
5 days ago
Toronto needs to be significantly better at owning the fact that it’s the most successful pluralist mega-city experiment in human history.
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Daniel Knowles
6 days ago
In an effort to get outside of my own bubble and explore the real America, I wrote a story about ageing affluent white millennial parents living in dense urban centres:
www.economist.com/united-state...
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City parenting has become a financial flex
The wealthiest neighbourhoods are defying suburbanisation
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/05/06/city-parenting-has-become-a-financial-flex
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Chicagoans Who Bike
5 days ago
We have a whole back catalog of interviews on our YouTube channel and our website, so we wanted to highlight one for the current moment - a Chicago dad living with a cargo ebike and no driver's license, and loving it!
#bikechi
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A Chicago Dad Who Bikes For Everything
YouTube video by Chicagoans Who Bike
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYQlIeP82KI
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Brendan Dawe
7 days ago
It was this huge export industry employing many skilled Canadians and we nuked it over our inability to not be weird about housing
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You can learn a lot about a country’s preoccupations from what its census focuses on (especially the short version, if applicable). 🇨🇦: Language 🇺🇸: Race/ethnicity
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What are the biggest questions about car-free living that you have, or that you’ve heard?
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8 days ago
The demand for anti-yimby scholarship has outstripped supply that meets academic standards/norms. Thus a black market fills the void...
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ScarletCoral
6 days ago
"People based in the Netherlands are behind several YouTube channels that promote Alberta separatism but are fronted by hired actors, according to an investigation by CBC News’s visual investigations team and Radio-Canada’s Décrypteurs"
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Dutch YouTube creators behind Alberta separatist videos getting millions of views | CBC News
A number of accounts creating misleading YouTube videos about Alberta separatism with millions of views appear to have their origins in a Dutch digital marketing course, a CBC/Radio-Canada investigati...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/alberta-separatist-youtube-channels-netherlands-9.7174719
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mulo montréal
7 days ago
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Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸
6 days ago
IMO we’re lucky the first president in 120 years that wants to annex us cares way more about a ballroom than annihilating all traces of liberal democracy in North America but we will probably not be that lucky with his successor
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Isaiah Bishop
7 days ago
Im not sure how we do but we must break the american perspective being the only one that matters in news
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A hospital in Montreal with bilingual (French/Italian) signage.
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